"You plan
your life out by degrees, adjusting when change forces you to, but you never expect a cataclysm
to occur when you’re close to calling it a career. That’s what she was: a cyclone, a typhoon, a
hurricane, a tsunami…a 10 on the Richter scale, my own personal Atlantis. Brielle came into my life and within days, I
couldn’t imagine how I’d managed to even breathe without her. It wasn’t physical; it wasn’t even remotely
that. There were others who wanted her,
men of appropriate means and station who made plays for her, who were very
overt in their romantic overtures, and she was inert to all of it. I watched her shoot them down repeatedly and
I wondered if she even realized she was breaking so many hearts."
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I love part 2. It was well done. I can just feel the emotional conflict pouring forth from this older guy.
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